using a sodium channel blocker called tricaine to pharmacologically inhibit all neural activity during the critical period of brain development in zebrafish larvae. This approach allowed the team ...

To tackle it, the authors of a study published last week (January 16) in Cell imaged large swaths of the larval zebrafish brain as the animals decided which way to move their tails to avoid an ...

The millimeters-long, translucent zebrafish may not get depressed ... picture of how antidepressants work in the brain, potentially leading to the development of safer and more effective drugs ...

Researchers uncovered how zebrafish detect colors using photoreceptor cells in ... are known to detect color and brightness with the pineal gland, which is part of the brain. An Osaka Metropolitan ...

The zebrafish is a good research stand-in for its fellow vertebrate, the human, because the two have many parts in common: brain, heart, liver, kidneys. And genome sequencing has shown that 84 ...

Their work reveals the secrets of the Balbiani body (Bb), a remarkable structure that organizes essential molecules to guide early embryonic development. Using zebrafish models and cutting-edge ...

toxicology studies on zebrafish are still based on single-omics analyses using individually prepared biological samples. However, selection of appropriate extraction solvents and pooling size for ...

Previous research focused on using various forms of fluorescent microscopy to visualize how brain circuits are formed within ... A genetic labeling system to study dendritic spine development in ...

Michael Barresi’s research interests are focused on how glial cells help wire the nervous system in the embryonic zebrafish brain. His lab discovered that ... Evolution and Development 8 (1): 101–10.

Artistic representation of heart regeneration: Hmga1 in green symbolically flows from the border zone of a zebrafish heart ... is important during embryonic development when cells need to grow ...